Workshops organised

Teachers and social workers learnt how to use drama to help their students resolve conflicts in two three-day workshops organised by the Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong at Margaret Trench Rehabilitation Centre this week.

The technique is based on putting real-life conflicts from family and school into plays.

John O'Toole, host of the workshop and professor of drama in education at Griffith University in Brisbane, said: 'Drama is always about conflicts. Students can be led to think about how and why the conflict happens, at which point we can help to solve the conflict and who can help to solve it.'

For the last three years, Professor O'Toole has been working on a project on cultural conflict resolution through drama. 'I want to use drama to let children understand that people from other cultures are not stupid simply because their lifestyle is different from ours,' he said.